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What Benefits Does an Arts Education Provide?
What Benefits Does an Arts Education Provide?
from the National Visual Arts Standards
▲ understanding human experiences, both past and present;
▲ learning to adapt to and respect others’ (often very different) ways of thinking, working, and expressing themselves;
▲ learning artistic modes of problem solving, which bring an array of expressive, analytical, and developmental tools to every human situation (this is why we speak, for example, of the “art” of teaching or the “art” of politics);
▲ understanding the influences of the arts, for example, in their power to create and reflect cultures, in the impact of design on virtually all we use in daily life, and in the interdependence of work in the arts with the broader worlds of ideas and action;
▲ making decisions in situations where there are no standard answers;
▲ analyzing nonverbal communication and making informed judgments about cultural products and issues; and
▲ communicating their thoughts and feelings in a variety of modes, giving them a vastly more powerful repertoire of self-expression.
Arts Education fosters:
Arts Education fosters:
excerpt from Americans for the Arts
Art also has something of a transcendent effect on her students, some more than others. She recalls a boy named Joel who missed homework and disrupted class. Art in Action changed him.
“I was surprised because I hadn’t seen him so meticulous with any work before,” says Kwa. “I immediately jumped on that opportunity to praise him, recognizing his strengths.”
When he got stuck on concepts in math and started to give up, she would refer to art class to remind him of his capabilities. Over time, Joel made those connections instinctively. He became more focused in class, turned in his homework on time, and his grades improved.
How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement is designed to answer these and other questions. It describes in nontechnical terms what the research says about how study of the arts contributes to academic achievement and student success. It offers impartial, to-the-point reporting of the multiple benefits associated with students’ learning experiences in the arts. In short, it “makes the case for the arts” based on sound educational research.
The Arts Are Required Subjects in California Public Schools.
The Arts Are Required Subjects in California Public Schools.
Music Education and Cognitive Development
Music Education and Cognitive Development
NEUROEDUCATION:
NEUROEDUCATION:
Findings and Challenges for Educators and Researchers from the 2009
Johns Hopkins University Summit
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D. director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara, summarized eight key highlights of the consortium’s findings:
An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition
Specific links exist between high levels of music training and the ability to manipulate information in both working and longterm memory; these links extend beyond the domain of music training.
In children, there appear to be specific links between the practice of music and skills in geometrical representation, though not in other forms of numerical representation. 5. Correlations exist between music training and both reading acquisition and sequence learning. One of the central predictors of early literacy, phonological awareness, is correlated with both music training and the development of a specific brain pathway. 6. Training in acting appears to lead to memory improvement through the learning of general skills for manipulating semantic information.
Changing Education Paradigms
Changing Education Paradigms
Video presenting information by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert.
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